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Description of Telemetered Gauging Station
Station Number: G8140003
Station Name: Daly River at Police Station
This site is located opposite the Police Station at Daly River. The recorder itself was built in November 1974, but periodic gauge readings were performed as far back as September 1952. It was established as part of a program to investigate the water resources in the Northern Territory. It has since been incorporated into the Departments’ Flood Warning Telemetry Network, providing near ‘real time’ river height and rainfall data. This data is available to provide timely advice regarding the prediction of flood events that may affect downstream communities, such as the Daly River Mission, Mango Farm and Woolianna.
The instrumentation at the site measures river height once the level exceeds 10.1 m. River height is recorded in metres to a local gauge datum (GD), but is also available in Australian Height Datum (AHD). This data is relayed back to the Departments’ Hydrographic unit in Darwin via telemetry.
The Daly River at this site has a base flow of almost 30 m3/s, (cumecs) maintained through the dry season by spring flows. The largest event recorded at this site was in February 1998, reading 16.25 m on the gauge.